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In mathematics, the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). The distribution is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who derived it around 1800, and Rodion Kuzmin, who gave a bound on the rate of convergence in 1929. It is given by the probability mass function
Let
be the continued fraction expansion of a random number x uniformly distributed in (0, 1). Then
Equivalently, let
then
tends to zero as n tends to infinity.
In 1928, Kuzmin gave the bound
In 1929, Paul Lévy improved it to
Later, Eduard Wirsing showed that, for λ=0.30366... (the Gauss-Kuzmin-Wirsing constant), the limit
exists for every s in [0, 1], and the function Ψ(s) is analytic and satisfies Ψ(0)=Ψ(1)=0. Further bounds were proved by K.I.Babenko.